From the Vaults: American Roads Among the many topics covered by Simon Winchester in his book The Men Who United the States (2013, Harper-Perennial Books), one that fascinated me a lot was the history of American roads. Winchester notes that at the turn of the nineteenth century, 96 percent of travel in America was […]
Raise your hands if you were in the audience for one or both of the Measured Chaos shows at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts in the summer of 2005 or 2009. If you were, then this will be a re-introduction to the band’s guitarist, harmonica player, lead vocalist, and leader, Al Jacquez. […]
At the end of my first year working in the Huron Mountain Club kitchen as a busboy turned dishwasher, my stress level was reduced for several reasons. We had survived the busiest part of the summer season short-handed with only two busboys and me pushing the dishes coming out of two dining rooms three meals […]
Michigan State Police Community Service Officer Geno Basanese of the Wakefield MSP Post (center) does a test run with the driving simulator with (l-r) Isaiah Beck, Branden Betcher and Ryan Preiss. Trooper Basanese spent most of Friday March 11, 2021 guiding small groups of Ontonagon Area Schools students through the simulator’s programs that demonstrate the hazards of […]
We have found ourselves with a piece of surplus equipment, includes manual, set up CD and unit. It no longer fits our signal chain and we hate the idea of having another dust catcher in the studio. It is a TRILITHIC EASy PLUS EAS SYSTEM CONTROLLER – it works but we had to take this […]
On those occasions when my students would complain the work I had assigned was boring, I would play the ‘Helen Toivonen Card’. As an educational mentor, they didn’t come much better than Helen. If her students complained, she would agree with them and say, “You are right. This is soooo boring, why don’t you […]